ETHANOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ethanol mean? 

• ETHANOL (noun)
  The noun ETHANOL has 1 sense:

1. the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline

  Familiarity information: ETHANOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHANOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol

Hypernyms ("ethanol" is a kind of...):

alcohol (any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation)

plant product (a product made from plant material)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ethanol"):

spirits of wine (rectified ethyl alcohol)

absolute alcohol (pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than 1% water))

denatured alcohol (ethyl alcohol that is unfit for drinking but is still useful for other purposes)

Holonyms ("ethanol" is a substance of...):

ethyl alcohol; neutral spirits (nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs)

gasohol (a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn)

 Context examples 

The determination of the amount of ethanol present in a sample.

(Ethanol Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the ethanol present in a biological specimen.

(Ethanol Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Also called ethanol ablation, PEI, and percutaneous ethanol injection.

(Alcohol ablation, NCI Dictionary)

Ethanol's primary physiologic effects involve the central nervous system.

(Ethanol, NCI Thesaurus)

Preparation of a homeopathic substance with a ratio of one part original material to 100 parts of carrier or solvent, traditionally lactose, water or ethanol.

(Centesimal Series of Attenuation, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cytochrome P4502E1 protein, is involved in the metabolism of drugs, ethanol and other xenobiotics.

(CYP2E1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Preparation of a homeopathic substance with a ratio of one part original material to 10 parts of carrier or solvent, traditionally lactose, water or ethanol.

(Decimal Series of Attenuation, NCI Thesaurus)

The question of whether corn is better used as food or as biofuel has persisted since ethanol came into use.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

This type of cancer is associated with excessive ethanol and cigarette usage.

(Esophageal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the both the metabolism of drugs, ethanol and other xenobiotics and the oxidative activation of nitrosamines.

(Cytochrome P450 2E1, NCI Thesaurus)